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According to the EULA, you need to stop using the qualifying OS when upgrading to Win7. That said, many are using the dual boot method you are considering, but then bailing out quickly which requires some major surgery if you want to save your Win7 installation and move it over onto the deleted XP space.

Consider plugging in a second HDD and installing Win7 there with XP drive unplugged. You can then plug the XP drive in and boot to it by using the BIOS shortcut key to make XP boot first. You can also access your files from either as a data drive.

And it is much easier to back out of XP later by just unplugging the drive, or converting it to a data drive.

Installing Windows 7 in a partition

Installing Windows 7 on a SSD partition of a 1TB HDDI have a Lenovo Y480 laptop and since i've gotten the laptop I've always been disappointed that they never installed Windows 7 on my SSD portion of the hard drive. So now I want to do it myself but I've having some issues with it due to my situation.
So i was following the guide from seven...

Installation & Setup

Installing Windows 7 with one partition?Hello,
My first post and quick question please to the experienced community here. I have Windows 7 64 bit Home Preminum installed and did a ‘standard’ clean installation on the computer I just built. This was a novice mistake of course. :) First time Windows 7 user and I was uninitiated about...

Installation & Setup

Installing Windows 7 in logical partition?Hi,
I have a machine with Ubuntu Linux already installed. I would like to install Windows 7 in a dual boot environment. The Ubuntu Linux is currently taking the first 3 primary partitions (2 is formatted as ext3 file-system and 1 as swap). I want to add 2 more partitions for Windows 7. since...

Installation & Setup

Deleting XP partition after installing windows 7Ok so i wasnt sure if i would be really pleased with windows 7 so i decided to dual boot it with xp. I have to admit windows 7 is the perfection of windows vista.
So now i want to delete my XP partition and add that free space to my Windows 7 partition. How would i go about doing this? i am...

Installation & Setup

Partition not showing after installing Windows 7Hi Guys,
I had a test version of windows 7 installed on my Sata drive which had 3 partitions on it (c:40gb, d:40gb, e:220). This worked fine.
I decided that i liked Windows 7 so i wanted to re-install it on a permanent basis so i went through the installation, formatted C: ONLY and installed...

Hardware & Devices

Installing Windows 7 on a partitionI currently use Ubuntu 9.04 as my primary OS, but having used Vista x64, Windows 7 x64 beta and having a copy of the RC i want to install it...
...but i don't want to frakk up my existing partitions etc.
Will Windows happily see and install to a 40GB partition i have on the drive, or will it...